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I think ultimately HN isn't what you want/need and it's an intentional choice to not be part of the "modern" SEO/clickbait Web so it's not going to change. You're a guest in dang's house and no matter how bad you need to succeed you have to follow his rules. Yes, the rules are a tradeoff; sometimes good stuff gets lost. This is a normal part of the randomness of life.

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yeah sure, that's the same argument as "Twitter is a private company so stop being outraged by censorship."

I find it paternalistic that only _certain_ things get moderated in this way while other stuff is "too hard to do anything about it" (dang's words in a DM).

There is tons of bad behavior on HN that is invisible and slightly negative headlines are not a significant part. I had many posts upvoted by HN already. Hundreds of comments were generated from my work (which is btw for free).

I'm a meaningful contributor to this site - quite the opposite to the people calling me names for making an argument they don't like.

People say I haven't picked up on the HN spirit. To them I say, the first rule of PG is to not name call!

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